Shayla said: ‘We were about five minutes away from home and we decided to take a short cut.

‘Just before going down a very steep hill, my mum told everyone not to go too fast. But did I listen? No. I was going down the hill I was trying to catch up with my brother-in-law and cousin.

‘The next minute I was on the floor covered in blood screaming in agony, with my mum holding my arms, my brother-in-law holding my head and my cousin holding my legs to try to keep me still just in case I had broken anything.’

She is still recovering to this day (Picture: Wales News Service)

Shayla, who said she cannot recall anything that happened one hour before or after the accident, was taken by ambulance to A&E at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.

She was then transferred to the paediatric intensive care unit of the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital in Cardiff.